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- kyliejennerI woke up like disss
- _.meowchaxoxo@gretamcbride black women INVENTED cornrows. They were the first to wear them, yet they weren't appreciated and when white girls do it it's 'a trend'
- hwaffer83Lol
- jill.chelsCornrows❤️
- savv.gnzi@__.emmx._
- rem.g.bivAnd this brings me to my next point: it's not cultural appropriation for black people to wear white/European hairstyles because white people have never been shamed nor oppressed for their beauty standards. When black women wear weave that's straight or chemically straighten their hair, it's to meet European beauty standards in order to be more accepted/respected/valued/taken seriously. Many jobs and school systems prohibit natural black hairstyles such as cornrows because they are "unprofessional". This is why black women have been pressured to change their natural beauty/features to fit white standards of beauty.
- rem.g.bivEspecially while black women, in specific, have been shamed for this hairstyle and have been forced to assimilate to western beauty standards just to get employment. Besides black cultural appropriation in general, black hair appropriation is especially problematic because it's more than just hair. There's so much oppression, partriarchy, and political contrivsy surrounding black hair. Black hair has a long history of being shamed for its natural "kinky" and "nappy" texture against the intellectual value and worth of black folk(specifically black women). When black women wear their natural hair it's seen as "too black", or in other words, they're seen as "the other" because their natural hair differs so much from the white hair norm and causes them to stick out like a sore thumb.
- rem.g.bivCornrows have a history and hold a deep connection to the struggles of black people; so to wear it because "it's cute" or to make a quick buck off of selling it to a white audience completely erases everything it has stood for. Black people have always been wearing it, but it only became trendy when white people started wearing it.
- rem.g.bivThe point is, as white people, we need to recognize how much privilege we have in situations like this. I understand, as a white person you can't relate to the significance of a hairstyle or a cultural symbol because we've never been very/comparably oppressed for ours. To you, it's "just a hairstyle!" it doesn't mean much more than that and people should be able to "express themselves however they want!" But that's because you don't know what it's like to have your identity so shamed, mocked, marginalized, exploited, or disregarded as black people have. This is why you need to put your experiences as a white person aside, your privilege, your ignorance, your excuses and you need to just listen. Please stop spewing all of your opinions and protective mechanisms at black people when they give their feelings and voice to something that is hurtful to them, because in doing that you are silencing them. By playing off their concerns and arguments as "over reacting"/"too sensitive"/"playing the race card" you're using your privilege to disregard the validity of their identity and voices.
- adj_1987你是很漂亮！
- paul_mcmillanWhat naturally beautiful
- awildcheyenne@jade__alford literally laugh at this post. is white, gets surgery to look black, tanned, cornrows???? yeah okay. this is hilarious
- itaxjiahprivOmgg😍😍
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- erick_diaz010So beautifull ilove @kyliejenner
- stassiworley@rem.g.biv you're so educated it's amazing
- mayyaelizabethwot in cultural appropriation
- mariehall4737@rem.g.biv Having straight hair is not just a white trait
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